EuGMS SIG on Falls & Fractures
Dear Colleagues,
The EuGMS SIG on Falls and Fractures is glad to invite you to its next OPEN online meeting. The meeting will take place on Tuesday 17th November 2026, 16:00 to 17:00 (CET), 3-4pm UK time.
You can join the meeting at this link:
The agenda of the upcoming meeting is as follows:
- Individualised exercise prescription for older adults at risk of falling
Professor Dawn Skelton (Department of Allied Health Professions, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Dawn Skelton is an exercise physiologist and Professor in Ageing and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is an academic with a strong interest in falls and frailty prevention, exercise programme implementation (dose, fidelity, motivation, adherence, choice) and in the development of apps with older people.
She was a coauthor on the World Falls Guidelines and received the British Geriatrics Society Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in translating falls prevention research into practice. She has chaired the Older Adults Panel of the Chief Medical Officers Physical Activity for Health Guidelines and the Royal Osteoporosis Society’s Consensus Statement on Exercise for Osteoporosis. She is also a Director of Later Life Training, a not-for-profit training company.
- Secondary prevention of fragility fractures: setting and optimizing a Fracture Liaison Service for older adults
Professor Kassim Javaid (Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences of Oxford University, UK) Kassim Javaid is an adult rheumatologist at the Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and an Associate Professor in metabolic bone disease at the University of Oxford. He is the clinical lead for the Oxford Fracture Prevention Service and the national Fracture Liaison Service Audit for England and Wales. His main research interests include the epidemiology of rare and common bone diseases, vitamin D, and secondary fracture prevention.
- Open Questions & Discussion - All
We look forward to meeting many of you online!
Join us!
Be on time, mute your microphone when you're not talking and enjoy this moment with your colleagues!
Please note that the meeting will be recorded and that the audio and video recordings might be used by the EuGMS for dissemination on the EuGMS website and social media.
Kind regards,
Prof Carmelinda Ruggiero, Prof Alvaro Casas Herrero, SIG Co-Chairs
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